Details of the Working Group
Outreach, Communication, and Promoting the Digital Water Globe: Lead by Christina Orieschnig and Neha Lakhwan
Communication is key to achieving the aims of the IAHS’ current scientific decade, HELPING. Working with colleagues across the globe and across disciplines, integrating knowledge across scales, and engaging local communities all involves considerable (science) communication and outreach efforts.
The aim of this working group is to facilitate these efforts within the IAHS community, and to document challenges and best practices throughout the decade. Furthermore, we aim to increase the visibility of the Digital Water Globe, a platform developed by IAHS to allow researchers in hydrology to connect with each other and with practitioners, to contextualize their work within space, and to link their efforts to larger initiatives such as HELPING, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Unsolved Problems in Hydrology.
Are you interested in science communication and outreach? Do you want to help give the Digital Water Globe a boost? Join us!
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Working Group Updates
Our first community paper has been published in HSJ! "Effective science communication in the face of water crises: a community perspective on challenges and best practice in HELPING" - find the full, open-access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2026.2625282 .
Further activities include a systematic promotion of HELPING and the Digital Water Globe, for instance through blogs such as those of the EGU Hydrological Sciences Division and the Young Hydrologic Society. We are also organising talks, for instance as part of the HydroTalks podcast series by EGU!
We have an upcoming splinter meeting at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU26) in Vienna, Austria (May 3 - May 8):
Science Communication in IAHS HELPING - Working Group Updates and Future Action - SPM128, Monday May 4, 16:15–18:00 CEST, Room 2.96, Red Level